Greenhouse - Goodbye Old Friend, Hello New

Not sure it worked like that as they were all preformed blocks just sitting on the crazy paving with no appearance of anything underneath them that would have adjusted the level. The wooden base of the greenhouse was bolted to them and was presumably there to keep the wood off the ground - but I know nothing about construction.

The rain has stopped at the moment so I hope to start the pressure washing when it is light. I'll lift the black membrane off the soil bed in the greenhouse and blast everything into it. Sounds easy but probably isn't!

 

All I've got to worry about is if there is any subsidence. If there is, and it's not too bad, I don't know whether a skim of concrete might be enough.

It has just stopped raining so I'll wait a short time before pressure washing. Then we shall need a spirit level to check the paving it will go on.

 

No problem. The concern has been there right from the start. The ground/paved area is pretty level but the concern is whether individual bits of paving have moved.

The only tall things are tomatoes and the height will be sufficient for that. We are trying to slow down in the garden (age is already doing that for us) so we don't want to increase things more than we have already.

We have another large tree that needs removing (got too big for its site) and are getting a quote this afternoon for removal.

 

The skip has just been picked up. We managed to put a lot more 'stuff' in there by wandering round the garden looking for unwanted things such as a 70 year old metal wheelbarrow where the wheel had fallen off because of rust. The tyre was still good.

 

It will certainly be interesting but no watering system.

 

By the time I had scraped up most of the soil and debris I had almost completely filled up a wheelie bin.







I also lifted the porous matting from the non paved area before I started to pressure wash the area.


The soil underneath it, 50 years ago, was flat but now it is lumpy and rock hard.


Scraped but not pressure washed yet


After a quick (one hour) of washing.

This is one of the long sides where the crazy paving was covered with slabs and, hopefully, will only need some pointing.


The framework of the greenhouse at this narrow end should be able to be sited on the big slabs here. They were the path by the door. I can then increase the approach (very right of the picture) by removing a little of the lawn and flower bed that is there.

This is the opposite end where the framework should be sited on the crazy paving


This is the other long side which will also need some pointing.




I'm hoping that the installers will consider it good enough.

 

One corner that was covered with a slab will need to be lifted and reset because it is higher and the Dabbing will need to be removed. The old greenhouse didn't sit on that area but the new will need to.




The soil area has grown some roots in it but the cleaned plastic has now been put back